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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

FREDERICK G. SNEYD, OF IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES A.BROWNE, TRADING AS REEVES 8c BROWNE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

JOINTED SHEET-METAL FIGURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. SNEYD, a subject of Great Britain,residing at Irvington, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful lmproven'ients in Jointed Sheet-Metal Figures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to gold miniature bears made up inthe jewelry trade to be worn as charms or ornaments, and the objects ofthe invention are to provide in such a figure, jointed members of hollowsheet-metal sections which members can be assembled before the sectionsthereof are soldered together; to facilitate the fastening together orassembling of the different members; to enable the connecting means ormeans for jointing the members together to be entirely hidden in thecompleted figure; to rovide a simple and efficient construction which isstrong, durable and inexpensive, and to obtain other advantages andresults as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like characters ofreference indicate the same parts in the several figures, Figure 1 showsin front elevation a miniature bear embodying my invention, the movementof its members being illustrated in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the body with the joints of the lower limbs sectioned andin different stages of completion; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of thehead detached; Fig. 4 is a view of one half or section of an upper limbconnected to the body; Fig. 5 is a sectional view of an upper limb andits joint to the body; Fig. 6 is a side View of the pivotal connectingmeans of a joint before being clenched together; Fig. 7 is a centralsection of such connecting means clenched, taken on line a, Fig. 8, andFig. 8 is an outer end view of the same.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the body or trunk of the miniature-bear,to which are secured the head 2, upper limbs 3, 3, and lower limbs 4, 4.Each of these portions of the miniature-bear is made hollow and composedof two halves or sections stamped out of sheet metal, as gold, and thensoldered together at their edges.

The body or trunk 1' is made up of sections 5, 5, preferably divided ona vertical median plane from front to back of the figure and indicatedby dotted line 3 in Fig. 2. Each'section 5, thus has at its lower end anouter face or seat 6 for a leg 4, near its upper end a seat or face 7for an arm 3, and at its top half of the seat 8 for the head 2, the lineof soldering of the two sections 5, 5 together crossing said seat 8, aswill be understood.

The head 2 is formed of two halves or sections 9 and 10, divided on avertical plane from the back of the neck upward and out just back of theears, as indicated at a in Fig. 3. This brings the neck joint surface 11entirely on the section 9 of the head, and enables this section to beentirely jointed and secured to the body 1, before the section 10 isapplied by soldering its edges to the edges of the section 9.

Each of the arms 3 is composed of sections 12, 13, the plane of divisionbetween which runs from the top of the shoulder to the end of the armand from front to rear of the figure, so as to not cut througlr the bodyeven if extended. The main section 12, or one next the body 1, has at ornear its upper end a flattened surface 14 adapted to engage theflattened seat 7 of the body and fit thereagainst to join the arm to thebody. Obviously after this section 12, has been connected or joined tothe body or trunk, by the means hereinafter described, the other orouter section 13 of the arm is applied to the said main section 12, andsoldered fast at its edges thereto, as shown in Fig. 5. Similarly, eachof the lower limbs or legs 4, is composed of two sections 15, 16,divided on a plane from front to back of the figure and passing throughthe upper outer point of the thigh and out through the foot. The entireflattened incline 17 to engage the hip seat 6 of the body or trunk isthus on the inner or main section 15 of the leg and the joint can beentirely completed before the outer section 16 is applied.

Each of the members 2, 3 or 4 of the figure is jointed or connected tothe body 1 in the following manner. The seat upon the body for thatparticular member, taking a seat 7 for an upper limb or arm for example,is provided at or near its center with a perpendicularly projecting pin18, preferably a piece of hollow wire soldered in place. The jointsurface 14 of the arm to be connected is apertured at or near itscenter, as at 19, to receive the said pin 18, and after the same hasbeen inserted, a ring 20 is dropped over the end of the pin, as shown inFig. 6. The extremity of the hollow-wire pin 18 is then spread or curledoutwardly over and upon the said ring 20, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8,which fastens the member securely to the body, while permitting its freepivotal movement. Obviously by the degree of tightness of the joint, orthe friction between the two joint surfaces, the member may be made tohold itself inany position or to be as loose as desired. After theswivel joint is formed, the other half or section of the member issoldered in place, and the connecting means above described are thenentirely hidden.

Obviously, various modifications of construction of the body, differentkinds of connections foruniting the members to the body, and other waysof dividing the members into sections could be employed by those skilledin the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.I prefer, however, the manner of dividing the members into sectionswhich I have shown, that is, on a line or in a plane extendinglongitudinally of the member and close to the endmost point of the jointsurface. This best exposes the said joint surface for connecting themain section to the body and greatly facilitates the work.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

In an article of the character described, the combination with onemember having a portion of its exterior forming a seat, of a hollowclosed member comprising two sections soldered together at their meetingedges, said second member having at its outer surface a seat locatedwholly on one of its said sections and adapted to articulate upon thesaid seat of the first-mentioned member, said second member extending inthe direction of its length obliquely from the contact surface of saidseats and having the plane of division of its said sections starting atthe extreme end of the hollow closed member contiguous to the said seatthereof and extending longitudinally of said member to its other end,and means for connecting said members at said seats, whereby free accessis provided for articulation of said members before the sections of thehollow closed member are soldered together. 4

FREDERICK C. SNEYD.

